Reducing RAD 8 memory footprint

Rational Application Developer has always been a bit of a hog on memory. I noticed this neat little feature today. This is available in RAD version 8. It essentially does an immediate garbage collection and reduces the memory footprint of RAD. If your system starts thrashing to your hard drive and you don’t want to restart, just click ‘Help – Performance – Reduce Memory Now’.

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